Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. Franz Liszt
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. John Rawls
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half. Jan Timman
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations. Arthur Schopenhauer
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange. David Ricardo
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. Dean Koontz